Can’t help but read this opening in the style of a 90s rom-com trailer:

Apparently the skirting board is the coolest place in the house…

‘The moon has a strange look tonight…’ Can’t wait to catch up with the LSO & Pappano doing Salome tonight

Top tip for free air-conditioned studio space to practise your ballroom on a Sunday… Apparently the Barbican is the place!

Not sure I’m capable of a more coherent review after that Salome. But ‘Phwoar’ pretty much covers it.

Opera’s version of ‘Taxi for one…’

Plenty of laughs and some cracking orchestral playing in this rewrite of Mozart’s The Impresario at Buxton Festival. Debut review from me ⁦The Stage⁩ thestage.co.uk/reviews/the-im…

First visit to ⁦West Green House Opera⁩ last night - what a magical garden and place. Bonus points for three-man duck security team shaking down picnickers for crumbs…

This absolute unit just arrived for review - 1,200 pages. See you all in the Autumn…

Catmouflage

Very much enjoyed my first trip to West Green Opera:

Belated first Prom of the season for me. Looking forward to Kantorow’s Saint-Saens.

Final summer opera of the season for me - keen to hear Dido given the Barokksolistene treatment ⁦Longborough Festival Opera⁩

Loved Bjarte Eike and Erlens Samnoen’s Dido last night at Longborough, especially the ‘wake’ with gorgeous folksongs from the cast. Heard some utterly polarised reactions from the audience though on the walk out - perhaps not billed clearly enough as a bit different to the norm?

**** Some seriously classy playing from Kantorow and a Scottish Chamber Orchestra performing like a crack baroque band for Emelyanychev: BBC Proms review The i Paper inews.co.uk/culture/arts/a…

Such stylish Saint-Saens from Kantorow -and somehow Emelyanychev & SCO made sense of this all-embracing programme: inews.co.uk/culture/arts/a…

From today's FT Opinion Financial Times #TomLehrer

I’ll have what she’s having

Doing this free lecture tomorrow online - everybody welcome. Some tough questions about the nature of what we imagine 20th-century music is, and what it really is. lockdownuniversity.org/lectures/2607-…

Looking forward to some Arvo Part BBC Proms this evening